Wang, Yugen
Zikpi, Monica
2014-09-29T17:45:40Z
2014-09-29T17:45:40Z
2014-09-29
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18362
This dissertation is a history of interpretation and interlinear commentary translation of the "Li Sao," an allegorical poem attributed to the late Warring States (475-221 BCE) poet Qu Yuan. I argue that the significance of the poem is an historically constituted and changing interpretation produced in a sequence of editions, and that insofar as translation is the necessary tool of Sinology, our scholarship and teaching should rest on a translation practice that visibly reflects the particularly Chinese material and reception histories of our texts. I analyze the rhetorical strategies by which specific interpreters, including Sima Qian, Wang Yi, Hong Xingzu, Zhu Xi, and Guo Moruo, "translate" the "Li Sao" through history, constructing personas of Qu Yuan that speak to the politics of their own respective eras. The last chapter is a new translation of the "Li Sao" based on my investigation of the poem's history. It contains multiple English renderings and diverse selections of historical commentary, presented in interlinear form, in order to facilitate historically critical understanding of the "Li Sao" and demonstrate the breadth of interpretation that it is possible to derive from the text. The translation offers not a single interpretation of the poem but rather an image of the historical dialogue that has produced and disputed it in interpretations from the Han dynasty to the present.
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University of Oregon
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Chinese poetry
Li Sao
Qu Yuan
Sima Qian
Translation
Walter Benjamin
Translating the Afterlives of Qu Yuan
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Ph.D.
doctoral
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Oregon

Meyers, Emily Taylor, 1979-
2010-03-02T23:23:08Z
2010-03-02T23:23:08Z
2009-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10232
xi, 236 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
Writers in the Caribbean, like writers throughout the postcolonial world, return to colonial texts to rewrite the myths that justified and maintained colonial control. Exemplary of a widespread, regional phenomenon that begins at mid-century, writers such as Aimé Césaire and George Lamming take up certain texts such as Shakespeare's The Tempest and recast them in their own image. Postcolonial literary theory reads this act of rewriting the canon as a political one that speaks back to power and often advocates for political and cultural independence. Towards the end of the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Caribbean women writers begin a new wave of rewriting that continues in this tradition, but with certain differences, not least of which is a focused attention to gender and sexuality and to the literary legacies of romance. In the dissertation I consider a number of novels from throughout the region that rewrite the romance, including Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs (1995), Mayra Santos-Febres's Nuestra señora de la noche (2006), and Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here (1996). Romance, perhaps more than any other literary form, exerts an allegorical force that exceeds the story of individual characters. The symbolic weight of romance imagines the possibilities of a social order--a social order dependent on the sexual behavior of its citizens. By rewriting the romance, Caribbean women reconsider the sexual politics that have linked women with metaphorical constructions of the nation while at the same time detailing the extent to which transnational forces, including colonization, impact the representation of love and desire in literary texts. Although ultimately these novels refuse the generic requirements of the traditional resolution for romance (the so-called happy ending), they nonetheless gesture towards a reordering of community and a revised notion of kinship that recognizes the weight of both gendered and sexual identities in the Caribbean.
Committee in charge: Karen McPherson, Chairperson, Romance Languages;
David Vazquez, Member, English;
Tania Triana, Member, Romance Languages;
Judith Raiskin, Outside Member, Womens and Gender Studies
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon theses, Comparative Literature Program, Ph. D., 2009;
Romance
Transnational
Caribbean novels by women
Caribbean nationalisms
Women
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea
Condé, Maryse. Migration des coeurs
Santos-Febres, Mayra, 1966- Nuestra Senora de la Noche
Brand, Dionne, 1953- In another place, not here
Dominica
Guadeloupe
Puerto Rico
Trinidad
Comparative literature
Caribbean literature
Women's studies
Wide Sargasso Sea
Migration des coeurs
Nuestra Senora de la Noche
In another place, not here
Caribbean fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Transnational romance: The politics of desire in Caribbean novels by women
Politics of desire in Caribbean novels by women
Thesis